Cheney's Fear

Cheney "fears" the U.S. troop pullout from Iraq cities and the handing over of sovereignty to the Iraqis, that somehow would service heretofore will have been in vain if we ever leave. I can spell perpetuity without looking it up!

Of course the old twerp "fears" any kind of progress over there, since his whole legacy is one of fear. He was there for eight years stoking the fires of fear around the world, constantly dangling certain death over our heads here in America if we didn't go along with every harebrained criminal plan he and that servile moron Bush concocted.

Dick treasures being the scary Darth Vader character that's always in the shadows about to jump out at us.

Well, guess what, you scurve, we were actually doing all right before you and Bush invaded Iraq. Iraq wasn't coming to get us. And we'll do all right when we finally get out of there.

Thank goodness Cheney isn't in office anymore, because he would have us in these quagmires forever and a day, if not longer.

Obama And The Troops

It was a delight to see President Obama addressing the troops. Finally, a commander in chief who has the well being of the troops at heart. Finally, we can believe what the commander in chief is saying, that he's not simply out to get a lot of people killed for ideological reasons. On these accounts, Bush was 100% guilty. He was a criminal.

But now ... how did we ever get so lucky? ... We have a feeling, compassionate, intelligent, honest president ... and the difference is clear!

Watching the entire speech today, in which the president announced the timetable for the completion of the Iraq war, was inspirational. This would be the time to enlist if ever there was a time. Your children aren't simply cannon fodder for the heartless, thoughtless Republicans.

It was great to hear him make such coherent points. The man has some reflective capabilities, and he has them in rich abundance. Obama compared to Bush is like a breath of fresh air compared to the filthiest stench I can imagine. How could two men be so different? Obama, like a genius, a humanitarian. Bush, a moron, complete and total garbage.

McCain's Abilities to Educate

I see the Republicans are in fine form so far this year, still insisting that up is down, wrong is right, and that they have some connection to reality, when in fact they don't.

When it comes to Iraq, it's been propaganda since before day 1: Weapons of mass destruction, we've turned every corner, we've endured the last throes, Mission Accomplished, victory was at hand before the statue hit the ground. Then long after the American people had had enough of the Administration's lies, spin, and deceit, John McCain decided to pin his hopes on stay-the-course, more-of-the-same, even if it took a hundred years!

Now he's taking on Barack Obama: "I would also seize that opportunity to educate Senator Obama along the way," he said, referring to a proposed trip together to Iraq.

That's a laugh for so many reasons. One, Obama was right about the war from before it began; McCain was wrong. The war was unnecessary, a pet project of Bush and the neocons. It has been a disaster on so many levels it's ridiculous. So, if anyone needs an education on Iraq, it's McCain himself. This is like Grandpa driving the family car in the ditch, then trying to tell everyone else how to drive. "Just sit back, Grandpa, we're almost home."

The choice couldn't be clearer -- you'd actually think McCain would try to be "against" the war instead of "for" it, for the sake of perception. But I guess once you've pinned your hopes on something, you may as well be all in. Either we want four more years of George Bush's policies of stay the course, up is down, being bogged down in someone else's civil war and calling it victory, or we want something better. McCain promises endless war, in Iraq and anywhere else he may choose. We need something better.

John McCain is the student who needs an education, because so far he has failed.

How Stupid?

Exactly how stupid do you have to be to do something like this?

BAGHDAD_A U.S. Army soldier was removed from Iraq after he shot a Quran full of bullets and marked it with graffiti, the U.S. military announced Sunday.

U.S. military officials, fearing a backlash as a result of the desecration moved quickly to resolve the case after Iraqi police found the desecrated book May 11 at a shooting range in the predominantly Sunni Muslim area of Radwaniya in western Baghdad.

Pounding your head against a nail stupid. Scratching your back with a gun stupid. Stupid like George Bush stupid. Moron, dense, dumb, foolish stupid.